27-05-2017, 11:01 AM
(26-05-2017, 08:14 PM)Koen Gh. wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.But if it's not natural language, then what is it? I just don't think that something like "auto-copying" is a realistic option, if only because of the historical context. Something "real", some kind of information, must have been at the basis of this text.
Why did you mean that the historical context speaks against the "auto-copying" hypothesis? To copy a book by hand was the only way to duplicate a book before Gutenberg invented the printing press. Therefore the "auto-copying" method fits very well into medieval times.
Your second argument is the same as Nick Pellings argument that the text is to complex to be meaningless.
In a text using natural language the words depend on each other. You are able to determine word classes and you can found relations between this word classes. In other words if the text has some meaning you should be able to describe some grammatical rules and should be be able to find words which normally occur together. Only by using a good encryption method it is possible to hide this patterns for a text using natural language.
Until today nobody was able to determine different word classes for the VMS. It is also not possible to find repeated phrases as hints for some word order. It seems that a word in the VMS only depends on it's position in a line or page and on there position to similar words. For an encrypted text this would mean that the encryption method used was not only able to hide all the patterns typical for a meaning full text. The method was also able to generate some patterns on its own. This is only possible if the encryption method used is not very efficient since they is using fill glyphs and words. With other words the patterns found indicate at least that a word in the manuscript didn't stand for a plaintext word.
If the text is meaningless such problems didn't exist anymore. There is no need to hide meaning if there is no meaning in the first place. It is also no surprise if a text generation method used for a meaningless text would generate some typical patterns on its own. Features like that the words depend on their position and that similar words are related to each other are not only explainable with the "auto-copying" method the "auto-copying" hypothesis is based on this observations.